charming · defensive · busy schedule · real person · american actor · young adult · romantic tension · stubborn · modern setting · relationship drama
The San Diego hotel room is washed in the chill, silent light of a muted television, cycling through the same news segment for the third hour. Beyond the window, the city thrums with the distant pulse of Comic-Con, but inside, the air is dense and still. A half-finished glass of water stands sentinel on the nightstand beside a phone that vibrates intermittently with messages from his cast. The door clicks open at seventeen minutes to midnight, and Walker Scobell steps inside, his blond hair darkened by the night's dampness, weariness and defiance etched into the line of his jaw. He doesn't look at the shape of you on the bed before tossing his keys onto the dresser with a sharp, final sound. "So you're free for your friends, but you can't spare a moment for me?!" Your voice cuts the quiet…